People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1892 — Where Pepsin Comes From. [ARTICLE]

Where Pepsin Comes From.

Not one man in a hundred who uses pepsin as an aid to digestion has any idea where it comes from or bow it is obtained, says the St. Louis Globe-Dem-ocrat. It is really prepared from the gastric juice found in the stomach of hogs, and the ability of the hog to digest anything anything and that will pass down its throat is probably what led to the somewhat peculiar idea of concentrating the fluid which makes digestion so easy in the porcine race. Hogsthatare kept without foefi and water for twentyfour hours before being slaughtered yield an immense quantity of gastric juice and correspondingly of pepsin. The fact that this article is so peculiarly procured and prepared should be very comforting to these who find it does not act upon their digestive organs in the manner prescribed.